On Mon, 13 Jan 2020 18:23:58 +0100, Johan Hovold wrote:
The driver was doing a synchronous uninterruptible bulk-transfer without using a timeout. This could lead to the driver hanging on probe due to a malfunctioning (or malicious) device until the device is physically disconnected. While sleeping in probe the driver prevents other devices connected to the same hub from being added to (or removed from) the bus.
An arbitrary limit of five seconds should be more than enough.
Fixes: dbafc28955fa ("NFC: pn533: don't send USB data off of the stack") Cc: stable stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.18 Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org
Applied to net, thank you. In the future please don't CC stable explicitly on networking patches, Dave (or I) will select and send all relevant patches to stable as noted in netdev FAQ.